Katrina Shah, 36, said: "I saw people with nose bleeds and cuts and bruises. "There is a yellow line on one side and all kinds of cars and vans on the other. "It's made the road too narrow and it's near-impossible to park here."

Karl Mills, 27, who also lives on the road, added: "They had to cut the drivers out of the buses. There was a lady sat down on the pavement with a pushchair with blood on her face.

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"It wasn't a nice sight. From what I could make out the 11 had tried to overtake a car and ended up embedded in the front of the 27.

"They were cutting into the double-decker to free the driver.'

Another resident Noel Cavannagh said: "They crashed right into each other in the middle of the road. "A lot of people were injured. There were old people and a baby in a pushchair.

"They were tended by residents who brought out water, tea and did whatever they could."

Mr Cavannagh also said he had seen buses having difficulty passing each other on the street in the past.

A spokesperson for West Midlands Ambulance Service said it took paramedics and firefighters an hour-and-a-half to free the two trapped drivers.

They added: "Crews arrived on scene to discover two buses that had been in collision with the front driver's side of both vehicles having suffered significant damage.